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SCHOOL-HOUSE 





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Seventeen Designs, 



IN" VARIOUS STYLES. 



WITH FULL DESCRIPTIVE DRAWINGS IN PLAN, ELEVATION, 

SECTION AND DETAIL. 



BY 



SAMUEL F. EVELETH, Architect, 

NEW YORK. 




NEW YORK: 
GEO. E. WOODWARD, 



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Entered according to Act of Congress iu the year 1870, by 

GEO. E. WOODWARD, 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



EDWAKD 0. JENKINS, 

printer an"3 Stmotjipcr, 

20 NoRin "William Street. 



CONTENTS 



Design No. 1. A frame country School-House, with one room, for pupils of both sexes. 

With specification. 

Plate 1. Perspective view. 

" 2. Front elevation, g-inch to the foot, and floor plan, ^-inch to the foot. 
" 3. End elevation and section, 8 -inch to the foot. 
" 4. Details, |-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 2. A frame country School-House, with one room and large veranda. 

Plate 5. Front elevation and ground plan, 3 |-inch to the foot. 
" 6. Side and rear elevations, 3 |-inch to the foot. 
" 7. Details, |inch to the foot. 

Design No. 3. A frame country School-House, with wings, containing one room. 

Plate 8. Front elevation, and floor plan, g-inch to the foot. 

" 9 and 10. Elevations, g-ineh to the foot, and details, ^-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 4. A frame country School-House, with wings, containing one room, with al- 
coves. 

Plate 11. Elevation and ground plan, g-inch to the foot 

" 12. Elevation, |inch to the foot, and details, J-inch to the foot. 
" J 3. Details, |-inch to the foot. 



4 CONTENTS. 

Design No. 5. A brick School-House, with tower, containing two octagonal rooms. 

Plate 14. Elevation and floor plan, ^-inch to the foot. 

" 15. Elevation, ^-inch to the foot, and details, J-inch to the foot. 
" 16. Details, *-ineh to the foot. Section, 8 -inch to the foot. 

Design No. 6. A brick School-House, of Gothic expression, with two rooms. 

Plate 17. Elevation and floor plan, ^-inch to the foot. 

" 18. Elevation, ^-inch to the foot, aud details, g-inch to the foot. 
" 19. Details, ^-inch and 1 inch to the foot. 

Design No. 7. A frame School-House of two stories, the upper one contained in a Mansard 

roof, with one room in each story, and two separate entrances. 

Plates 20 and 21. Elevations and plans, 8 -inch to the foot. 
" 22. Details, |-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 8. A frame School-House, with steep roof and tower of two stories, with one 

room in each story. 

Plate 23. Elevation and plan, g-inch to the foot. 

" 24. Elevation and plan, i 6 -iuch to the foot, and details, 1-inch to the foot. 
" 25. Details, 2-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 9. A frame School-House, with steep roof and gables, of two stories, with one 

room in each story, and two separate entrances. 

Plates 26 and 27. Elevations and plans, ^-inch to the foot. 

" 28. Section 8 3 3 -inch to the foot, and details, 1-inch to the foot. 
" 29, Details, 1-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 10. A two story frame School-House, with one room upon each floor, and two 

entrances. (Two styles of elevations.) 

Plate 30. Two elevations and two plans, /(-inch to the foot. 
" 31. Details, 1-inch to the foot. 

" 32. Section, 1-inch to the foot, and details, 1-inch to the foot. 
" 33. Alternate elevations, jViuch to the foot, aud details, g-inch to the foot. 



CONTENTS. 5 

Design No. 11. A frame School-House, two stories in height, with two entrances, and with 

one school-room and two class-rooms in each story. 

Plate 34. Two elevations, and two plans, ^-inch to the foot. 
"' 35. Details, a-inch to the foot. 

Design No. 12. A frame School-House, two stories in height, with third story within a steep 

roof. The third story containing one large room, and the other two 
stories containing two separated rooms in each. 

Plates 36, 37 and 38. Elevation and plans, /u-inch to the foot. 
" 39. Section, g-ioch to the foot, and details, j-inch to the foot. 
" 40. Details, 2 -inch to the foot. 

Design No. 13. A frame School-House, with Mansard (convex) roof, containing the same ac- 
commodation as the preceding, the two rooms upon each floor arranged 
so as to be thrown into one. With specification. 

Plate 41. Perspective view. 

" 42 and 43. Plans and elevations, ^-inch to the foot. 

" 44. Two floor plans, ^-inch to the foot, and details, J-inch to the foot. 

" 45 and 46. Details, to different scales. 

Design No. 14. A frame School-House, with veranda and bell - tower, and the same 

accommodation as the preceding design. 

Plate 47. Two elevations, ^-inch to the foot. 
" 48. Three floor plans, ^-inch to the. foot. 
" 49 and 50. Details, to different scales. 

Design No. 15. A brick School-House, adapted for two high schools, three stories in 

height, two stories containing one large room and two class-rooms 
each, and the third story containing one large lecture hall. Irregular 
steep roof. With specification. 

Plates 51 and 52. Elevations and plans, ^-inch to the foot. 

" 53. Elevation, ^-inch to the foot, and details, J-inch to the foot. 
" 54 and 55. Details, 2-inch to the foot. 



6 CONTENTS. 

Design No. 16. A frame School-House, with two full stories, aud Mansard roofs. Each 

story containing three connected school-rooms. 

Plates 56 and 57. Elevations and plans, ^-inch to the foot. 
" 58. Two floor plans, j^-inch to the foot. 
" 59. Section, g-iuch to the foot. 
" 60. Details, 2 -inch to the foot. 

Design No. 17. A brick School-House, three stories in height, with accommodation for 

four classes upon each floor. 

Plate 61. Perspective view. 

" 62 and 63. Elevations and plans, j^-inch to the foot. 

" 64. Two floor plans, jViuch to the foot. 

" 65. Section, g-inch to the foot, and details, g-inch to the foot. 

" 66. Details, g-inch to the foot. 

" 67. Details of inside blinds and platform stairs -to different scales. 



DESIGN NO. 1 



SPECIFICATION 



MASON'S WORK, 

Excavation. Dig out the earth to the depth required ou the sectional drawing, for 

the foundation walls and the piers, and to the depth of 3 feet for the drains. 

Make level and solid the bottom of the trenches for the reception 
of the intended work. 

Excavate also for the cess-pool hereinafter required, and for the water- 
closet vault. 

When the several parts of the works for which excavation is required 
have been set, fill in the earth around and over them to the grade, and 
level off or cart away the remaining earth. 

Drainage. The drain-pipes required to be of the best quality of well burued 

earthenware pipe, with all required angles, properly laid, and cemented at 
the joints. 

Set one 3-inch drain from the lower end of one of tbe rain-water lead- 
ers to the water-closet vault, and one 5-inch pipe from that vault to the 
cess-pool. 



Cess-pool. To be built with good building stone, laid without mortar. To be 5 

feet in diameter, and 6 feet deep. Cover two feet below the grade with 
sound hemlock plank, three inches thick. Set the cess-pool at least 50 feet 
from the buildiut 



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SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 1. 



Foundation 
Walls. 



Underpinning 
Walls. 



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Brick Filling. 



Use good large-sized angular stones for the trench walls shown on 
the sectional drawing, and build them 20 inches in thickness, and 8 feet in 
height. 

Set stone foundations for the piers carrying the floor timbers, and for 
the steps. 

Build the underpinning walls 3i feet high, and 8 inches thick. Build 
the piers carrying the first floor 8 inches square, also two piers of the same 
size to carry each porch floor. 

All these piers to start at least 3 feet below the grade. 

Build the water closet vault as exhibited in detailed drawings for 
Design 3, Plate 10. Make the connections with the drains in the best man- 
ner, and give the interior two coats of cement. 

Leave an opening 2 feet wide in the underpinning, behind each set of 
door steps. 

Build the chimney with one flue, 16 by 20 inches, pargetted throughout. 

Set, upon one side of the flue, a 6-inch earthern pipe, properly secured 
to the bricks by iron straps at the joints, and provided with branch for the 
stove pipe to enter. 

Provide two ventilating registers of ornamental pattern in japanned 
iron, provided with valves and all fittings recpiired for working them, and 
set the same in the chimney, one at the bottom, and the other at the top of 
the room. The opening in each register to be equal to 12 by 18 inches. 

All the bricks used in the above work to be of good quality, hard 

burned, and well formed. Lay those required for the underpinning, vault, 

piers, and chimney above the roof, with cement mixed with equal portions 

• of clean, sharp sand. Lay the remainder of the bricks with good strong lime 

mortar. 

Finish the chimney top as required by the drawings. 

Select the best shaped and most uniformly colored bricks for those 
parts of the work exposed to view, and finish them with narrow and accurate 
joints. 

Line up the outer walls, as high as the ceilings, with good bricks set 
flush with the inner edge of the studding, and set on edge. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 1. 9 

Furnish and put in grouting of coarse mortar between the beams in the 
floor. 

Lathing and Lath the ceilings, and the partitions with good sound pine laths, free 

Plastebing. from bark, breaking joints at every sixth lath. 

Plaster the walls, ceiling and partitions with two good coats. The first 
to be of hair mortar, well floated, and the second of clean, sharp sand, and 
plaster of Paris, trowelled down perfectly smoth, except so much as is in- 
cluded in the black-boards in the school-room, which is to be formed of a 
proper composition to finish black and with a proper surface for black-board 

use. 

Run a stucco cornice at the angle of the school-room ceiling, of the 
size and pattern given on the detailed drawings. 

Finish the recess for the stove with half domed top, and chamfer and 
bead at the outer angle. 



CARPENTER'S WORK. 

All timber required for the framing is to be sound and square edged, 
and of the sizes specified below. 

Timber in the first floor, including the steps, to be of pine or chestnut; 
in the rest of the framing of spruce. 

Sills to be 4 by 6 inches, halved together and well nailed at the angles. 

Girders (4 in number), 6 by 9 inches. ■ 

Flooring 2 by 9 inches, set not more than 16 inches on centres, and 
bridged with 1 by 3 pieces, well nailed. 

Sills for " Porches," 4 by 6 inches, and joists 2 by 6 inches. 

Corner studs, 4 by 4 inches; window and door studs, 3 by 4 inches ; and 
wall studs 2 by 4 inches ; the last named set 16 inches apart. 

Wall plates, 4 by 4 inches. 

Rafters 2 by 9 inches, set 20 inches on centres. 

Ceiling pieces, 2 by 8 inches. 

Secure the lower ends of the rafters to the ceiling pieces, by two § inch 
bolts at each end. 

Suspension pieces, and braces shown in the section, 2 by 8 inches, well 
spiked to the rafters and the ceiling pieces. 



10 SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 1. 

Partition studs 2 by 4 inches, set 16 inches on centres, and bridged 
with herring-bone bridging. Nail the studding to the sills and the plates 
thoroughly, and execute all the framing in the best manner. 

Exterior- Walls. Cover all the exterior vertical walls with pine sheathing, planed £ inches 
thick, matched, and put up in widths not exceeding 6 inches to each piece. 
Take pains to set this sheathing as close as possible, and nail with two 9d. 
nails to each bearing. 



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Roof. Cover the roof with sound roofing boards of uniform thickness, set 

close and well nailed. 

Finish. Corner boards, window and door casings, and belt over windows to be 

1-} inches thick. Water table to project 2 inches, and that as well as 
the belt, to have a lipped top piece connecting with the sheathing. 

Cornice as by the drawings, with chamfered facia. Brackets carrying door 
hoods of 5 by 6 inch timber chamfered, and filled with 1 inch thick scroll 
sawed work. 

Corner brackets 4 inches thick and chamfered. Form a gutter in the 
cornice, as shown by the drawings. Finish the roof with roll and cresting, 
the latter two inches thick. 

Build the belfry with 6 by 6 inch chamfered posts, starting from the 
bottom of the ceiling joists, and secured to them and to the rafters by 2 
half inch bolts at each bearing. 

Finish the belfry with finial, scroll sawed verge boards, 2 inches thick, 
and brackets 4 inches thick, as by the drawings, and put in a wooden tube 
2| inches square to carry the bell rope through the roof and the ceiling of 
the piazza. 

Finish the steps with 2 inch treads and platform, and ^-inch risers, 
and put up chamfered posts, buttresses, and balustrades as required by 
the design. 

Floor to piazzas of 1^-inch plank, matched, and set with 2-inch pitch 
outward. 

Paint the joints before setting, and have no piece in the flooring ex- 
ceed 4 inches in width. Sheath up the ceilings of the piazzas with ma- 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 1 



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terials like those required for the vertical walls, and finish them with posts 
and balustrades, as required by the design. 

Materials. All the materials required for the exterior finish to be of thorough]} 7 

seasoned pine, free from sap, shakes, and large, loose, or dead knots. 

TiTOONG. Cover the main roof and the roof of the belfry with best charcoal tin, 

of XX thickness. 

Put the tin on with standing joints, and make the roofs weather proof. 

Line the gutters in the cornice with tin as above, well soldered and se- 
cured, and fasten the facia back with galvanized iron straps secured to the 
roof, and set not more than 8 feet apart. 

Put up 4 leaders of 3 inches calibre, connecting with the gutters. 
To be of tin, of the quality required for the gutters. Connect one of them 
with the drain leading to the water closet vault, and secure them all to 
the walls with metallic fastenings. Terminate three of them with 8-inch 
elbows at the ground. 

Paint all the tin work with 3 good coats of white lead paint, the 
last coat tinted slate color. 



Doors. 



The entrance doors to be 2 inches thick, and of the size shown on the 
elevation. To be made in 8 panels, the two upper ones stationary, and the 
four central ones glazed Avith double thick glass, protected on the outside 
by ornamental iron screens. The rest of the doors, except those in the 
water closets to be If iuches thick. School-room doors 3^ by 8 feet, those 
connecting with piazzas, &c, 3 by 8 feet. All the above doors to be fin- 
ished with raised mouldings. 

Water closet cloors 2^ by 61 feet, 1\ inches thick. The external openings 
on the rear (to water closets, and to fuel room) to be closed by doors 1^ 
inches thick, of lattice work made of 1 by 2 inch stuff. 

Hang the last named cloors with strong strap hinges, and put on large- 
sized rim locks. Hang all the other cloors with 4J by 4^ butt hinges, (3 to 
each of the entrance doors,) and put to all of them mortise locks and 
latches, with brass bolts and facings. The locks to be of approved " lever " 
pattern, and the handles of white " porcelain." 



12 SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 1. 

"Windows. The windows in the gable ends to be finished with shades, as shown 

on the detailed drawings. Those connecting with the piazzas to be fin- 
ished in the French manner. Sashes If inches thick, rebated and lipped at 
the centre joints, hung with butt hinges and fitted with latches, and bolts 
at top and bottom. 

The sashes in the 3 front windows to be double hung with axle 
pulleys, iron weights, and best bleached sash cord, and fitted with spring 
centre fasts with white "porcelain" tips. 

These sashes to be If inches thick and weather lipped afc the meeting 
rail. Glass to be double thick, and of the best quality of English or 
French sheet. 



Blends. 



Flooks. 



Furking. 



The three front windows to be fitted with outside blinds, 1\ inches 
thick, to be made with 4 panels to the window, and swivel shades. Put 
on with most approved wrought iron hinges and fastenings. 

All the doors, window sashes and blinds to be made of clear thoroughly 
seasoned, kiln-dried white pine. 

Cut in and fasten between the flooring joists, sound hemlock boards 
to carry the grouting required of the mason. 

Lay the floor with thoroughly seasoned pine or spruce planks, 3 inches 
wide, and 1J inches thick, planed, matched, blind nailed, and smoothed off 
after laying. This flooring to be free from shakes, cracks, pitch, holes, and 
loose or rotten knots. 

Make a trap door, 2 by 3 feet in the floor of the boys' entry, and fit it 
with 2 rings and staples. Also a trap door of the same size in the ceiling 
of the piazza, next the boys' entry. 

Raise the teacher's platform 7 inches, and finish at the edge with scotia 
and torus. 

Thresholds of Southern hard pine. 

Cross - fur the ceilings throughout, except as otherwise provided for, 
with sound 1 by 3 inch spruce strips set 16 inches on centres. 
Fur out with the rough brackets required for the cornice. 



Partitions. 



Finish the recess for the stove with half-spherical top; the whole height 



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of the recess to be 10 feet. Form the partitions dividing the water closets 
of planed and matched 1 inch stuff, set vertically, capped at the top, and 
8 feet hio-h. 

Sheath up the walls of the fuel room the entire height, and those 
of the entries and room containing the water closets to the height of 8 feet 
with materials similar to those specified for the external sheathing. Fin- 
ish the 8 feet high sheathing with monlded cap. 

The walls and partitions of the school-room to be sheathed up to the 
height of 3| feet with pine sheathing o] inches wide, planed, matched, set 
vertically, blind nailed, and smoothed off after setting, with a hand plane. 

Cap this sheathing with scotia and torus cap projecting 2 inches clear, 
and hollowed at the top. 

Put a moulding 3 inches wide at the upper edge of the black-boards 
(6 feet from the floor). Leave the sheathing of the recess for the stove up 
3 inches from the floor, and cover the opening thus made with fine wire 
netting. Also make an opening in the floor between every two of the par- 
tition-studs enclosing the recess, equal to 4 by 10 inches. 

Window axd All the windows and doors to finish on the inside with 1^-inch casings, 

Dooe Finish. 6 inches Avide, chamfered as drawn on the sectional drawing. 

Case up thirty boxes, 8 inches wide, 9 inches high, and 12 inches deep 
in each of the entries. These boxes to be set upon the floor and against 
the walls, to form two tiers ; to be open in front, and to be covered with a 
wide shelf forming a seat. Put also thirty wrought-iron clothes hooks, of 
approved pattern, upon the walls of each of the entries, and put white 
metal numbers, from 1 to 30, to the boxes and the hooks. 

Fit up the water-closet with risers, seats, and hinged flaps, complete. 
Hano- the doors with iron butts, and fit them with small iron bolts set 
on the inside. 

Peivt. Build a privy for the boys' use, and set the same where directed. 

Plan, arrangement, and size, like that of the room containing the water- 
closets. Height of posts, 10 feet. Finish the walls with, sheathing and 
corner-boards, as required for the school-house ; give the cornice 18 inches 



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SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 1. 

projection, and finish it with chamfered facia ; tin the roof as specified for 
the school-house, and make all the interior finish to correspond with that 
of the room enclosing the water-closets. 

Provide each division with movable vault of sound hemlock plank. 



Materials. For all the interior finish, except as otherwise specified, use sound, 

thoroughly seasoned white pine lumber, free from shakes, pitch, and large 
or bad knots, selecting the best materials for the school-room. 



Painting. Paint all the interior wood- work with two good coats of best Union 

white lead and pure linseed oil. Grain all the wood-work in the school- 
room and the entries in imitation of oak. 

Tint the walls of the school-room of a lio-ht blue, and the ceiling of 
a deeper blue. 

Paint all the exterior wood-work three good coats, as required for the 
interior work. 

Tint the last coat with burnt umber or Vandyke brown for the sheathing 
on the walls ; with a deeper shade of the same for the corner-boards, window 
and door-casings, and other trimmings, and use a deep tint of burnt Sienna 
for all the chamfers. 

Grain the outside doors in imitation of black walnut, and finish all 
grained work with one coat of varnish. 

Do all the labor required to set 56 chairs and desks, to be furnished 
by those having charge of the work. 

Furnish all materials required for the work, except as otherwise speci- 
fied herein ; and do, in the most workmanlike manner, all labor necessary 
to complete the building according to the evident intention of the design, 
as set forth in the drawings and in this specification. 

Remove all rubbish from the building and premises at the completion 
of the work. 



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This design shows a primary Scliool-bouse for pupils of either sex. 

As will be observed, the foundation is of wood, consisting of large locust or red cedar 
posts, set in the ground. 

The sheathing of the walls below the belt at the level of the window-sills is set 
vertically, and above that belt, horizontally. The roof is of tin, put on with raised joints. 

It is believed that the veranda would prove a very useful feature in the design, affording 
a conunodious and amply protected play-room for foul weather, a provision quite necessary 
in the case of young children. 

The exterior should be painted with three tints of a warm brown color, using the 
lightest tint for the walls above the belt, the blinds, the under-side of the projecting roof, 
and the perforated work in the gables ; the medium tint for the wall below the belt, and 
the darkest tint for the corner boards, veranda posts and rafters, and the window and door 
trimmings and belts. 

The roof should be painted with two tints of a light slate color, laid upon the alternate 
strips of tin. 

The cloak-room and fuel-room, should be sheathed up with narrow strips the whole 
height of the walls. 

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DESIGN NO. 4. 

Plates Nos. 11, 12 and 13. 

A primary School-Louse for pupils of both sexes, the cloak-room being used in com- 
mon, and the boys' water-closets being in a detached building, is represented in the plates 
exhibiting this design. 

No new features in construction, beyond what have already been described, are pre- 
sented ; and it is believed that, excepting the roof framing, the design is sufficiently explained 
in the drawings. 

The rafters in the roof framing should span the entire depth of the building, and the 
partition dividing off the school-room should be carried up to the rafters, to serve as a sup- 
port for them. The ceiling joists should span the school-room, and be laid at right angles 
to the partition named, being securely spiked to the partition and wall-studs ; and a truss 
should be formed by nailing on pieces extending from the end of the ceiling-joist in the 
partition, up to the part of the rafter over the centre of the school-room, and from this last 
point suspension pieces should be carried to the centre of the ceiling-joists. 

The ceiling of the alcoves at either side of the schoolroom, is meant to be level with 
the ceiling of the latter, but separated from it by segmental arches of about two feet rise. 

The outer corners of these alcoves are represented as being truncated, and finished with 
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DESIGN NO. 5- 

Plates 14, 15 and 16. 

These plates show a design for a brick school-house to accommodate one hundred pupils 
of both sexes, divided into two classes. 

The octagonal form of the schoolrooms, the principal feature of this design, is preserved 
in the ceiling of these rooms, the principal rafters starting from the angles of the octagon and 
meeting at the centre. 

The wall plates are carried around upon the interior partitions, and, for the purpose of 
withstanding the thrust of the roof, they are bound together at each angle by iron straps 
extending in both directions, and bolted to each of the plates which meet at that angle. 

The rafters are also bolted to the plates, and connected with the key-block at the centre 
of the ceiling by short tenons. 

The connecting roof between the two octagonal roofs, is partly built upon these roofs, 
and partly supported by the central partition. 

The lines surrounding the windows, etc., shown in the section, are designed to be exe- 
cuted in colors. 

The walls and ceilings should also be tinted, and the panels formed by the timber 
work of the ceiling, should be finished with borders and angle ornaments in colors. 

The rafters and purlins in the roof framing should be of well-seasoned timber. 

The steps, the coping of the wall enclosing them, the window and door-sills, and the 
water-table, should be of stone, and the bricks forming the arched window and door lintels, 
should be carefully jointed. 

The plan of the cellar would be the same as that of the principal floor, the partition 
walls being of brick. 



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DESIGN NO. 6. 
Plates 17, 18 and 19. 

This design exhibits a brick school-house to accommodate two classes of pupils of both 
sexes, each class containing fifty-six pupils. 

There is a separate entrance for the pupils of either sex, and a separate passage to the 
cellar or basement, which should be divided by two brick partitions directly under the 
cross partitions in the principal story. The central portion of the cellar furnishes room for 
the furnace and the storage of fuel, and the parts beneath the school-rooms serve as play- 
rooms during foul weather. The two chimney flues which appear on the plan are joined 
above, and are designed to be used to ventilate the lower part of the school-rooms, by the 
aid of the iron or earthen smoke-flue before described. 

The upper part of the school-room is ventilated by means of openings into the space 
above, which communicates with the open air through the dormers and the shaded gable 
windows. 

The walls, to the height of the plate, are 12 inches thick, and in the gables 8 inches 
thick, with buttresses in the latter flush with the wall below, the break in the wall being 
marked by a stone course. 

The reveal of the windows is equal to the width of two bricks, and a rebate is formed 
in the jamb of the windows in the principal story, by setting back the outer course 4 inches 
from the line of the inner course, terminating the rebate with stone quoins. 

The color of the exterior wood-work should resemble that of the stone used. 

Two shades should be employed, one of them considerably darker than the other, the 
darker shade being used for the beads upon the rafters, the chamfered work, and similar 
parts. 



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DESIGN NO- 7- 
Plates 20, 21 and 22. 

A village School-house, for two schools or classes, composed of pupils of both sexes, 
with separate entrances for those of either sex. 

The basement is designed to contain one large room under the school-room, also the hot- 
air furnace, fuel-room, and water or earth-closets for the teachers' use. 

The registers admitting the heated air to the school-rooms, are set on the side of the 
rooms opposite that in which the ventilating registers are put. 

It is believed that the construction is sufficiently explained in the drawings, without 
further description. 

The hinging of blinds, either upon the outside or inside of double or triple windows, 
being attended with some practical difficulties, the arrangement shown in Plate No. 67 is 
recommended for such cases. Or inside blind?, suspended by cords, and raised or lowered 
by means of them, may be used. 

Besides the method of making a blackboard surface described in the Specification for 
Design 13, and the use of slate in large slabs for that purpose, a preparation called " Liquid 
Slate," which may be applied to wood, paper, or plaster, is extensively used, and highly 
recommended. 



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DESIGN NO. 8. 
Plates 23, 24 and 25 

A village School-house, for the use of two schools. 

The first story plau shows the arrangement of the single desks required for 5G pupils, 
with the width of aisles and outer passages usually allowed. Two feet is the common 
length of single desks for grammar schools, but for high schools they are more frequently 
27 inches long. Double desks (for two pupils each) are three and one-half feet long, and 
two feet is the usual allowance for aisles. 

It is believed that the construction of the roof is sufficiently explained in the plates, 
except that it ought to be added that the upper plate should be trussed over the window 
recesses. 

The walls are finished with narrow-matched siding, the trimmings being 1£ inches thick. 

If slate is used for the steep roofs, small ornamental figures of different colored slates 
should be introduced, and if these roofs are covered with shingles, there should be a belt of 
six courses in the centre of the height, with half octagon, or pointed ends, and the shingles 
should be painted. 

The flat roofs are covered with tin. 

Two shades of color should be used in painting the wood-finish, and a tint considerably 
brighter than either of them should be applied to the chamfers, a narrow line of the same 
tint being drawn around the scroll-sawed figures shown in some parts of the design. 



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DESIGN NO. 9. 

Plates 26, 27, 28 and 29. 

This design exhibits an arrangement of two school-rooms and dependencies, to accom- 
modate pupils of both sexes, each room being large enough for forty-eight pupils. 

The framing of the roof consists of two principal rafters, set one on either side of the 
triple windows in the second story, these principals being more fully described in the sec- 
tional drawing. The gables over the triple windows permit the purlins spanning the space 
occupied by the windows to be trussed, and support for the end portions of the roof may 
be gained from the partitions at the ends of the school-room. 

The vaults for the water-closets are built as shown in Plate No. 10, and the rain water 
from the roof is used for cleaning purposes, as there represented. Ventilation for these 
closets is secured by means of two latticed openings extending the whole height of the room 
enclosing them, the partitions dividing off the closets being only 7 feet high. 

Access to the cellar is secured by flights of stairs under those shown on the plans, 
reached from the cloak-rooms. 

The walls are covered with narrow tongued and grooved weather-boarding, the trim- 
mings being 1J inches thick. 

The main cornice is cased up on the slope of the rafters, with a gutter at the edge. 

The gables and porches are finished with scantling and scroll-sawed plank, as repre- 
sented in the plates. 



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DESIGN NO. 10. 
Plates Nos. 30, 3 1, 32 and 33. 

DESIGN NO. 11. 
Plates 34 and 35. 

Each of these designs embodies an arrangement of the interior which will very fre- 
quently be met with in some parts of the country. The design of the exterior finish, how- 
ever, is put forth as a decided variation upon that usually found in connection with nich 
plans. 

Design No. 10 is only adapted to wood construction, but Design No. 11, though repre- 
sented here as constructed of wood, might be built of brick, using the same wood gable 
finish shown in the plates. 

Two sets of elevations are given for Design No. 10. The first (Plate No. 30) repre- 
sents the sheathing of the first story as furred out the thickness of the corner boards in the 
story above, that in the second story being set upon the wall-studding. 

The joints in the vertical sheathing in the gables should be chamfered, or rebated suf- 
ficiently to mark them. 

In the exterior for Design No. 10, shown in the elevations on Plate No. 83, as well as 
in that for Design No. 11, the walls are finished with narrow-matched sheathing. 

, The school-rooms in both designs are large enough to accommodate 64 pupils each. 

Each sex has a separate entrance and communication with the cellar, which last should 
be divided by a partition through the centre, in the direction of the length of the building. 




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DESIGN NO. 12. 
Plates Nos. 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40. 

A town or village School-house, for four classes, of fifty-sis pupils each, with large 
room in the third story, designed for those exercises in which two or more classes engage 
in common. 

A great part of the specification for Design No. 13 will apply equally well to this 
design, and this consideration, in addition to the full detailed drawings given, seems to make 
a general description unnecessary. 

It will be noticed, however, that the roof in this design differs essentially from all the 
others given in this book, in that this roof stands entirely upon the third floor beams, and 
is only connected with the plates through those beams. In carrying out this arrangement 
the girders in the third floor should run lengthwise the building, the beams carrying the 
partitions under the end upper plates being doubled, and the projecting pieces necessary to 
carry the end steep roof being secured to the double beams and to the end plates, and set 
at rio-ht angles to them. All the roofs are designed to be covered with slate. 

The exterior should be painted with two shades of drab, the chamfers and similar parts 
of 4he finish being marked by using white paint. 



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DESIGN NO. 13 



SPECIFICATION 



MASON'S WORK. 

Excavation. Excavate the ground to the depth required for the foundation walls, 

for the cellar and areas, and for all other works specified, and fill in around 
and above the same, after the works are set. Use all remaining earth for 
grading as directed. Excavate for the outside piers to the depth of 8A feet, 
and at least. 3 feet deep for the drains, giving the latter a pitch of half an 
inch to the foot. 



Stone Walls. 



Cut-Stone. 



Build the cellar walls of large-sized angular stones, laid 2 feet thick in 
strong lime mortar, and point the wall full with lime mortar at the com- 
pletion. Start these walls from a good firm foundation in the natural earth, 
carry them up to the grade of the thickness specified, and finish them with 
a good even surface upon the inside. 

Build return walls at either side of the steps to the basement, to carry 
these steps. 

Build stone foundations for the outside brick piers hereinafter called 
for, 3| feet high, finishing at the grade, and set large flat stone foundations 
(equivalent to 18 inches square), six inches thick, under each of the interior 
posts. 

Carry up the jambs of the windows and doors in the basement true 
and plumb. 

Provide dressed stone sills, 4 by 6 inches, for the basement windows, 

and flag stone curbs, 3 by 8 inches, for the walls enclosing the window areas. 

Also, provide dressed stone steps to the basement, and curbs to the 



2 SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 

walls enclosing them. The former to be 8 inches rise and 9 inches tread, 
and the latter to be 8 inches square. 

Cess-Pool and Build a cess-pool 8 feet in diameter, with stone walls 6 feet high, laid 

Drains. dry, and starting from a level 12 feet below the finished grade. On these 
Avails build a domed brick top, 8 inches thick, with man-hole 2 feet in 
diameter, enclosed by a wall of the same thickness, and covered, one foot 
below the grade, by a stone slab. The bricks in the dome, and surround- 
ing the man-hole, to be laid in cement. 

Set this cess-pool afc least 50 feet away from the school-house, and con- 
nect with it the privy vault hereinafter described, by a 6-inch drain. Also, 
lay two 4-inch drains from the rain-water leaders on the rear of the build- 
ing' to the vault. The above drains to be laid with sound, well-burned 
earthen pipes, the interior diameter equalling that specified above, to be 
properl}' graded, trapped, and connected with the vault and cess-pool, and 
to be put together with cemented joints. 

Brick- Work. Build the underpinning walls 3 feet high and 12 inches thick, the outer 

Underpinning- face being set 3 inches beyond the frame. Lay these walls with close and 
Walls. uniform joints, neatly pointed, and set the basement window frames (to be 
furnished by the carpenter) as by the plan. 

Build a coal-slide, as shown on the drawing, with flag-stone bottom and 
cover, provided with the necessary iron fixtures. 

Privy Vault. Build the privy vault of the length given on the basement plan, and 

in the manner shown in Plate No. 10, finishing the interior with one good 
coat of cement. 

Piers. Build six brick piers, 8 by 8 inches, under the front part of the privy, 

and two piers of the same size to carry the porch floors. 

Areas. The walls enclosing the window areas, to be 8 inches thick. Provide 

and set gratings, made of \ by f -inch iron bars placed 2 inches apart, over 
each of the window areas. 

All the above specified brick-work is to be laid with mortar composed 
of the best cement mixed with equal quantities of screened sand. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 



Partition The centre partition wall in the basement to be 12 inches thick, on 

Walls. 16-inch footing. Remaining walls in basement 8, inches thick, on 12-inch 

footings. Set door frames (furnished by the carpenter) as required by the 
plans. 

Chimney. Build the chimney as required by the plans and detailed drawings. 

Carry up two 8-inch piers, one at either side of the steps to the basement, 
and cover them 18 inches below the first floor with a stone slab 4 inches 
thick, to serve as a foundation for the chimney. 

Plaster all the flues evenly throughout on the inside, and finish above 
the l'oof as by the drawings, covering the ventilating flues with a 2-inch slab. 

Set funnel-irons in the basement story connecting with the central flue, 
and two ventilating registers in each school-room, one at the top and the 
other at the bottom of the room. (The registers to be furnished by the 
carpenter.) 

Let the top registers of the school-rooms at one end of the building, 
connect with one of the flues on the corresponding side of the chimney, and 
the bottom registers with the other flue. The ventilating registers to be 
of japanned iron of ornamental form, with centre-balance valves. 

Furnace. Provide the bricks and mortar required, and set a largest size hot air 

and hot water combination furnace, as located on the plan. 

Materials for For all the above specified brick-work, use good hard-burned weather 

Brick- Work, bricks, selecting the best of them for exposed work. Except where cement 
is required to be used, lay the brick-work with mortar composed of one- 
third fresh lime, and two-thirds clean, shaip sand. 

Level off the cellar-bottom, and finish it with cement grouting 3 inches 
thick. Finish the bottom of the window areas in the same manner, the 
finished surface to be 3 inches below the top of the window-sill. 
Give the interior of the basement two coats of lime wash. 



Brick Lining Line all the external walls with a course of pale bricks set edgewise, 

for "Walls. with courses set flatwise at intervals of every two feet in height. The inner 
face of this lining to be flush with the wall studding. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 



Lathing and 
Plastering 



Lath all the ceilings, and the walls of the third story with sound laths, 
and break the heading joints at every sixth lath. 

Piaster the ceiling of the basement with one good coat of brown 
mortar, floated and smoothed. 

Plaster the remainder of the building with three coats, a brown coat, a 
"scratch " coat, and a finishing coat of lime and sand. 

Pun stucco cornices, 6 by 9 inches, in the school-rooms, and in the 
Assembly Room in the third story. 

The walls ou two sides of each of the school-rooms, and on one side of 
the Assembly Room, for a height of 3 feet above the level of the window- 
sills, are to be prepared for use as black-boards, by substituting for the third 
coat of plastering specified above, a coat formed of plaster of Paris or 
marble dust, mixed with lamp black, and trowelled down hard and 
smooth. 



CARPENTER'S WORK, 



Framing. The several parts required in framing the walls are to be of the sizes 

given in Plate 32, the posts carrying the girders are to be doubled, the 
girders being set between them, and halved and bolted to them, as there 
shown. 

Girders in the several floors, 6 by 10 inches, flooring beams 2 by 10 
inches, framed to the girders with tusk and tenon. 

All the flooring beams to be set 16 inches on centres, and bridged, 
and these carrying partitions to be doubled. 

Studs iu vertical partition, under the upper plate, 2 by 5 inches, upper 
plate, 5 by 8 inches. 

Rafters in upper roof, 2 by 9 inches, and ceiling beams of the same 
size, framed with doubled suspension and truss braces, 1 by 9 inches, as in 
Plate 39, the whole well nailed together. The rafters in the curved roof to 
be of 2 inch plank, sawed to the arcs given on the drawings. 

The two outer posts in the stairs are to be carried up the entire 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 5 

height, aocl with two posts of the same size starting from a girder in the 
third floor, are to carry the belfry, and to be braced at the top as 
shown. 

Set 6 inch turned chestnut posts, with caps and bases, to carry the 
several floors. 

Sills for porch floors, 4 by 8 inches, and joists, 2 by 8 inches, plates 4 
by 6 inches, and rafters, 2 by 6 inches. 

All the timber required in framing is to be perfectly sound spruce, and 
all the framing is to be executed in the most skillful and substantial 
manner. 

Furuish and put iu all the iron bolts and nuts required in the 
execution of the framing. 

Exteeiok Finish. Finish all the external walls as high up as the centre of the first story 
windows, with tongued and grooved £ inch sheathing, rebated at the 
joint, as by the detailed drawings, furred out from the studding 1| inches, 
and set iu widths of not less than 9, nor more than 10 inches. Terminate 
this sheathing with projecting cap as by the drawing. Above this cap cover 
the walls with tongued and grooved j inch sheathing, set in widths not 
exceeding 6 inches, upon the studding. The rusticated corners of the 
corner boards, the wiudow casings in the second story, and the frieze, to 
project 1J inches beyond the sheathing last named, and the corner boards 
and frieze to finish with sunk panels. 

Finish the water-table, belts, cornices, porches, dormers, and belfry, as 
by the drawings. Sheath up the ceiling of the porches and belfry, level 
with the planceer of the cornice of each of them, with narrow matched and 
beaded sheathing. 

Floor of porches of 1J> inch clear plank, tongued and grooved, set in 
widths of 4 inches, the joints coated with white lead paint. Treads of the 
steps of the same material, each tread in one piece. Eisers g inch thick. 

Privies. The posts in the lattice work before the privies, aud in the partition 

separating the passage way to them, to be of chestnut, 6 by 6 inches, set 
3 feet in the ground. 

The partition to be of pinned and matched 1J inch stuff, nailed to 
rails of proper size, and carried up to-the roof. 



SPECIFICATION. 



DESIGN No. 13. 



The latticed work to be formed of 1 by 2 inch pieces, also nailed to 
rails cut into the posts. 

Sills to privies 3 by 6 inches. Floor joists 2 by 6 inches. 

Walls formed of narrow matched sheathing, set vertically. 

Floor of 1 J inch flooring, planed, tongued, and grooved. 

Partitions as by the plan. Set cleated door to each division, with 
thumb-latch and box-lock, and put in each division a small window hung 
with butt hinges, and fastened open and shut with hasps. 

Finish with risers, seats, and hinged naps. 

Roof as required for the upper roof of the school-house. 

Paint all the wood work of the privies with three coats, of the shades 
required for the school-house, and shower fine sand in the last two coats. 



Roofs. 



Cover all the roofs, including the bell deck, with planed, tongued, 
and grooved sound roofing boards. Set a scuttle 2 by 3 feet in the bell 
deck. 



Tin Woek. Finish all the roofs with tin, put on with standing joints. Line the 

gutters in the main cornice, and in the porch cornices with the same. 

Put xip four 4 inch rain water leaders, connecting two of them with the 
drains to the privy vault. 

Put in the hot air pipes to the several school-rooms immediately over 
the furnace. 

Use the best charcoal roofing tin for all the tin work, and paint that 
upon the outside three coats of best lead or zinc paint. 

Furnish all the ventilating registers required to be set in the chimneys; 
also furnish and set all registers necessary for the hot air prpes. 



Flooes. 



Lay all the floors with sound, thoroughly seasoned 1-^ inch flooriug, 
planed, tongued, and grooved, set in widths of 4 inches, blind nailed, and 
smoothed off after laying with a hand plane. 

Build a teacher's platform to each school-room, to be 5 by 12 feet, 
raised 7-£ inches above the floor. Use the same material that is required 
above for the flooriug, and finish with a moulded edge. 

Thresholds throughout of hard wood. 



Stairs. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 7 

Build platform stairs from the basement to the third story, as required 
by the drawings. To he 5 feet in width, clear of the rail, above the base- 
ment. Details as given in plate 67, so far as strings, risers, and treads are 
concerned. Sheath up on the string with matched and beaded sheathing 
surmounted by rail similar to that shown in plate 67. Set a step ladder to 
communicate with the scuttle in the bell deck. 



Partitions. Set the partitions with 2 by 4 inch spruce studding placed 16 inches 

on centres, and bridged with one row of herring- bone bridging:. Double 
stud the door and other openings. 

Partitions separating the school-rooms, as shown in detail on Plate 50. 
Studs and partition caps 3 by 8 inches, the latter trussed over the door 
openings. 

Finish the window recesses in the third story with splayed jambs, as 
by the drawings. 

Furring. Cross-fur all the ceilings with sound 1 by 3 inch strips, set 16 inches 

on centres. Fur clown the ceilings of the cloak-rooms to the height of 10 
. feet. 

Windows. Frames for basement windows of 2 inch plank. 

Sashes set into a rebate, hung with butt hinges, and fitted with 
wrought iron fastening's. 

Window frames above the cellar of the usual form for weighted sashes 
with hard wood pulley stiles. 

Sashes throughout If inches thick, one to each window in the base- 
ment, and two to each window above the basement, the latter with lipped 
meeting rails. 

Glaze all the sashes with the best English or French sheet glass, 12 
panes to the window. 

Hang all the sashes not otherwise provided for, with iron weights, 2 
inch noiseless axle pulleys, and best Russian hemp sash cord, and fit them 
with most approved spring centre locks. 



Blinds. 



Provide and hang inside blinds to each of the windows in the school- 
rooms, and the assembly room. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 13. 



Doors. 



To be of best chestnut, 1J inches thick, 8 panels to the window, 



with rolling shades. 

Basement door frames of 2j inch plank, rebated for the door, and 
properly ironed to the brick and stone work. The doors in the parti- 
tions separating the school-rooms to be arranged as shown in Plate 50, and 
to be hung with iron weights, 3 inch pulleys or sheaves, and raw hide 
sash cord. 

Principal entrance doors, G by 8 feet, with head light over them. To 
be 2 inches thick, each door in two parts, finished with raised mouldings. 

Doors in the basement o\ by 7 feet. School room doors 4 by 8 feet, 
and doors to cloak room, 3\ by 8 feet. All the doors, except as above, -to 
be If inches thick, 4 panels each, with beveled stiles and rails. Hang 
all the doors not otherwise provided for, with loose-jointed 4\ by 4^ inch, 
iron butts, 3 to each door, and fit them with mortise locks and 
latches of the most approved manufacture, and with glass or metallic 
handles. Set two wrought iron flush bolts in one-half of each of the 
entrance doors. Above each of the doors in the first and second stories, 
set a blind, with rolling shades, to be 20 inches high, and of the same 
width as the door over which they are set. 

Wainscot. Sheath up the walls of the school-rooms and the assembly-room to the 

level of the window sills, those of the cloak-room to the height of 6 feet, 
and those of the halls to the height of three feet, Avith matched and beaded 
sheathing, 3\ inches wide, set vertically, and blind nailed. Surmount this 
sheathing with a moulded cap, made wide in the school-rooms, and 
hollowed out upon the upper side. 

Set a neat moulding at the upper edge of the black board. 

"Window and Dook Casings. 

Finish all the windows and doors with beaded casings 6J inches wide, 
and moulded band. 

Set moulded transoms between the doors aud the blinds over them. 



Clothes Hooks. Furnish and put into each of the cloak-rooms, 5 dozen double iron 

clothes hooks, with white metal numbers to designate them, from 1 to 60. 



SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 13. 9 

Seats and Desks. .Do all the labor required to set in place in each of the school-rooms, 
56 grammar school seats and desks. 

Coal-bin. Build a coal-bin in the basement, as by the plan, with 2 inch plank, 

with 4 by 4 inch studs. Also put in the cold air box to the furnace. To 
be of planed and matched boards, arranged with valves so as to take the cold 
air from the basement, or from outside the building. 

Materials. All the doors and sashes to be of clear, perfectly seasoned, kiln dried, 

white pine. 

All the exterior finishing stock to be of sound, seasoned white pine. 

The interior finishing material, except for the floors, to be of sound 
seasoned chestnut, free from bad knots, cracks and holes. 

Floors of sound, seasoned pine or spruce. ~ 

Painting. Stop, knot, and paint all the exterior finish, and the doors and sashes 

throughout, with three coats of the best linseed oil paint. 

Grain the entrance doors to imitate black walnut, and the inside doors 
and sashes in imitation of oak, and finish all grained work with one coat of 
the best varnish. Give all the interior chestnut work two coats of the best 
linseed oil. 

The last coat of paint upon the curved roofs, to have two tints of 
lead color laid upon the alternate strips of tin, the upper roof being painted 
with the darker tint. 

The last coat upon the wood finish to have two tints of umber, or 
umber and yellow ochre. 

Furnish all the materials required for the execution of the work, 
except the furnace and the furniture of the school-rooms, and do all the 
labor necessary to carry out the design, and to fulfill the evicleut intent and 
meaning of the drawings referred to, and this specification. 

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DESIGN NO. 15. 



SPECIFICATION. 



MASON'S WORK 



Excavation. Excavate for the foundation walls to the depth shown, and for the 

external piers to the depth of 3 feet. 

Level off the bottom of the trenches for the walls, and ram them down 
so as to secure a good even and firm surface. 

Deains. Excavate for, and set drains as follows: One 8-inch drain from within 

the cellar to the cess-pool hereinafter specified, with 6-inch branches start- 
ing from beneath the water-closets in the basement, and a 6-inch branch 
from the privy vault, and two 4-inch drains from the rain-water leaders on 
the rear, to the privy vault. All of the drains to be of best earthen pipe, 
well burned and glazed, set with a grade of at least J-inch to the foot, with 
cemented joints. Fit all the drains with traps, and properly connect them 
with the brick and stone-work. (For arrangement and details of privies, 
see Design 3, Plate 10, and Design 13, Plate 43.) 

Cess-pool. Cess-pool to be built with good stone, laid dry. To be 10 feet in 

diameter and 10 feet extreme depth, the bottom being 12 feet below the 
grade. 

The stone walls to be 6 feet high, finished with brick domed top, ter- 
minating in man-hole 2^ feet in diameter, covered with stone slab 4 inches 
thick. Brick-work 8 inches thick, laid in cement, and plastered \ inch 
thick upon the outside with cement. The cess-pool to be set as far away 
from the building as the size of the lot will permit. 



2 

Well. 



Concrete. 



Stone Walls. 



Areas. 



SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 

Dig and stone-up a well in the cellar as by the plan. To be 3 feet in 
diameter, of the depth required to secure au unfailing supply of water, cov- 
ered level with the cellar floor with a 4-inch slab, provided with cast-iron 
cover 18 inches in diameter, secured to the stone with hinges and a padlock. 

Set concrete footings to the foundation walls, 3a feet wide and 1 foot 
thick. The concrete to be formed of four parts of screened gravel, no stone 
being larger than an egg, two parts of clean sand, and one part of well- 
burned lime, the last ground fine. Mix dry, add water enough to bring the 
concrete to the consistency of mortar, and set immediately. Puddle the 
concrete to a uniform surface, and allow it to dry before setting the stone- 
work upon it. 

Build the foundation walls of the heights shown on the drawings and 
2] feet thick. Use angular quarried stone well bedded and jointed in mor- 
tar, the internal joints neatly finished where exj)osed to view, and, the whole 
left with a e'ood level surface for the brick-work. 

The walls enclosing the areas before the basement windows, to be 8 
inches thick, of good hard-burned brick laid in best cement mortar. Cover 
with coarse hammered curb-stones, 6 by 8 inches, rebated for iron-work. 

Plaster the outside of these area walls with best cement. 



Steps. 



Grouting. 



Privies. 



Build brick walls 16 inches to carry the steps to the cellar, as required 
for the area walls. 

Set proper stone foundations for the steps to the principal story. 

Level off the cellar bottom and finish it, as well as the bottom of the 
window areas, with cement grouting at least 3 inches thick. 

Build the privy vaults with hard-burned bricks laid in cement. Sizes 
to be as in Design No. 14. For details, see Design 3, Plate 10. Build 
foundation Avails for privies 8 inches thick, starting from 12-inch footings at 
least 2^ feet below the grade. To be of good hard-burned bricks laid in 
cement mortar. Plaster the interior of privy vaults with two good coats 
of best cement. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 3 

Gbading. Excavate for all the above work, and after the several parts are set, fill 

up to the grade with earth well rammed, using the earth remaining for 
making up the levels about the building. 

Remove the turf at the commencement, and preserve it for use at the 
completion. 

CUT-STONE WORK. 

Geawite. Sills to principal entrance doors 8 by 16 inches, beveled 1^ inches. 

Steps to basement 8 inches rise and 9 inches tread. 

Curb to these steps 8 by 8 inches. 

Sills for basement windows 5 hj 10 inches. The above, as well as 
the curbs to the areas, to be of granite, coarse hammered. 

Set flag-stone slabs 4 feet wide, and as long as the width of the steps 
to each flight of steps to the principal story. 

Sand Stone. Water-table course to be 1\ inches high and 6 inches wide, with 2-inch 

wash. 

Sill-course to first story windows 5 inches high, 10 inches wide, and bev- 
eled up 1\ inches at the windows, and 4 inches wide elsewhere, carried 
completely around the building. Caps to first story windows 8 by 10 inches. 

Sill-course to second story windows 7\ inches high, 12 inches wide, and 
beveled up 1\ inches at the windows, 6 inches wide elsewhere. To project 
2 inches, and finish with coved edge at the bottom. 

Caps for the second story windows as by the detail drawings, with 
4-inch lintel finished with sunk panels behind a brick arch, with skew backs 
and keystone 4 inches thick. 

Stone belt forming the facia of the main cornice 8 inches high, cut out 
for the gutter, and secured by two l\ by J-inch iron clamps to each stone. 

All of the above window-dressings and belt-courses, to be of the best 
sand-stone, accurately jointed, with tooled bed and joint, and rubbed face. 



Estetcioe The exterior walls to be 16 inches thick, solid, up to the water-table. 

B;:ick Walls. Above the water-table to be 14 inches thick, and to consist of an 8-inch 

outer wall, a 2-iuch air-space, and a 4-inch inner wall. But build the wall 



i SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 

solid for the width of 2 feet where it carries girders, and bond the outer 
and inner parts at intervals of 16 inches. 

Partition Partition walls in basement to be 8 inches thick on 12-inch footing's. 

Walls. Build a ledge on these walls to carry one end of flooring-beams for the halls 

and class-rooms, and set, on the cellar floor, proper brick foundations for the 
outer ends and the centres of those beams. 



Interior Brick. Interior brick piers 16 inches square, with 24-inch footings. Provide 
with flag-stone slabs 16 by 16 and 8 inches at the top, and set 4 of the same 
in each pier, at equal intervals. 

Exterior piers 8 by 8 inches, on stone foundations sunk 3 feet. Use 
cement mortar for all the piers. 

Chimney flues 2 by 3^ feet, used also as ventilating flues. Walls 8 inches 
thick. In each of the chimneys set an earthen pipe 8 inches in diameter, to 
serve as a smoke-pipe, and secure it to the inner side of the chimney-flue by 
iron straps. Set the ventilating registers, hereinafter specified, and do all 
cutting away of brick-work required in setting hot- water pipes. 

Plaster the flues smoothly on the inside throughout. 

Finish the windows with 8-inch reveals, those in the second story 
formed in part of two 4-inch reveals, as by the detail drawings. Set Avood 
lintels, 6 by 8 inches, over the inner side of window openings, to be fur- 
nished by the carpenter. 

Materials eor Execute all of the above specified brick-work with good hard-burned, 

Brick-Work, well-formed bricks, selecting the best for faced work. Lay all bricks, unless 
otherwise directed herein, with mortar composed of one-third fresh well- 
burned lime, and two-thirds clean sand. Finish all exposed brick-work 
with close, uniform, and neatly-struck joints. 

Provide all the centres required for arches. Set the bricks in the 
arches over the second story windows with their length in the direction of 
the radius of the arch, and cut them so as to make the joints of uniform 
width. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 5 

Lathing and Lath the ceilino- of the basement storv, the outer walls of the rooms in 

Plasteeing. it, and the walls, ceilings and partitions in the rest of the building, through- 
out, with good sound pine laths, free from knots and bark. 

Plaster the ceiling of the " cellar " with one good coat of hair mortar, 
floated and smoothed. 

Plaster the remaining walls, ceilings, and partitions, throughout, with 
two good coats, the first of hair-mortar -floated to an even and true surface, 
and the last of hard-finish white mortar trowelled clown hard and smooth. 

For the black-boards, substitute for the second coat named above, a 
coat of black mortar suitable for the purpose. 

Run stucco cornices 6 by 8 inches in the two school-rooms and in the 
assembly room, and finish the projecting angles with l^-inch beads. 



TINNER'S AND PLUMBER'S WORK. 

Gutters. Line the gutters in the cornices with tin. Carry that in the gutter of 

the main cornice up 6 inches under the slating, and work a 1J by ^-inch 
iron rod into the outer edge of it. 

Set galvanized iron straps to secure the facia of the upper cornice to 
the roof. To be set 2 feet apart. 

Tin-Roof. Cover the upper roof and the roof of the porches with tin, put on with 

standing lock-joints. Flash the porch roofs, where they meet the vertical 
wall, with 4 lb. sheet lead. 

Paint all exterior tin-work with two good coats of the best metallic 
roofing paint. 



Rain-Watee Put up, with proper iron hold-fasts, two 4-inch leaders on the rear of 

Leaders. the building connecting with the drains, and put in four 4-inch 18 oz. cop- 

per leaders, well clenched and soldered, to connect the gutters at either side 
of the towers with the tanks in the second story, two to each tank. 



6 
Tanks. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 

The tanks in the second story, over the cloak-rooms, will be 6 by 6 by 
3 i'eet each, and that in the class-room in the basement will be 4A by 2 by 
1* feet. 

Line all these tanks with sheet lead, 4 lbs. to the foot, well-soldered 
and secured to the sides. Extend the lining of the tank in the basement 
over the whole of the top of the table of which it forms a part. 

Put in 5-inch 18 oz. copper overflow pipes from the tanks in the second 
story to the drains below, well clenched and soldered, and firmly secured to 
the walls. 



Water-Closets. Put in two best constructed pan water-closets in the basement, as by 
the plan. To have wliite Wedgewood-ware basins and receivers, with brass 
cup and handle, and to be supplied from the tanks above, each through 
strong lead pipes. 

Put in 6 lb. lead trapped soil-jnpe, and 4-inch cast-iron soil-pipes to 
connect with the drains. 

Urinal. Put in one Wedgewood-ware urinal, with f-inch strong lead supply- 

pipe, fitted with brass cock, and l*-inch waste-pipe to the drain. 



Wash-Bowls. 



Put in each of the cloak-rooms in the first and second stories, a 14-inch 
Wedgewood-ware, marble pattern basin. 

Supply them through strong 2-inch lead pipes, and put in proper over- 
flow and waste-pipes to the drains. 

Finish with white marble top and wall-pieces, the former 2 feet by 20 
inches, and the latter 12 inches high. 

The basins to have silver-plated upright basin-cocks and silver-plated 
plugs, chains, strainers, and overflow. 

Put in a f-inch strong lead pipe from the nearest tank, to the tank in 
the class-room, with brass cock, and 2-inch waste-pipe to the drain. 



Pumps. 



Set two 22-inch brass cylinder lift and force-pumps in the basement, 
drawing water from the well through l^-inch lead pipes, and connected with 
the tanks in the second story by extra strong l|-incn lead pipes. Set one 
of these pumps next the tank in the basement class-room, with brass cock 



SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 7 

in the discharging-pipe to empty into the tank, and the other in "the hall at 
the opposite end of the basement. 

Provide the pipes leading to the wash-bowls with filters, and arrange 
for emptying the tanks into the drains. 

Trap all the pipes connecting with the drains. 

Registers. Provide ventilating registers for the several rooms, four to each room 

and the assembly room, and two to each class-room. Each to be 12 by 16 
inches, of ornamental pattern of japanned iron, with swivel valves complete. 

Materials. The tin required for the foregoing work is to be of the best quality of 

charcoal tin, XX thickness, and all of the other materials are to be the best 
of the several kinds specified. 

(It is designed to heat the building by means of steam radiators sup- 
plied by pipes from a boiler in the basement, the pipes being carried up in 
the chimney-flues as far as practicable.) 



CARPENTER'S WORK 



Frame. 



Timber as by the list given below, all of sound square-edged spruce, 
except as otherwise specified. 

Girders (four to each flodr) 8 by 10 inches. 

Flooring-beams 2 by 10 inches, set 16 inches on centres, framed with 
tusk and tenon, and bridged with sound 1 by 3-iuch strips. Headers and 
trimmers at cellar windows 4 by 10 inches, and around stairways, 5 by 10 
inches. 

Double the beams carrying partitions. 

Flooring-beams for the halls and class-room in the basement, of 3 by 
6-inch sound pine or chestnut, set 18 inches on centres. 

Wall plate 4 by 10 inches. Upper plates 6 by 8 inches. Studs carry- 
ing upper plates, 2 by 6 inches, 16 inches on centres. 

In the alcoves of the assembly room, set, on the girders in the floor, 
6 by 6-inch chamfered chestnut posts, to carry the upper plates. 

Rafters to steep roof 2 by 6 inches, set 18 inches on centres. 



SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 

Rafters for upper roof 2 by 9 inches, with 2 by 9-inch ties, and 1 by 
8-inch doubled suspension pieces and braces, the whole spiked together in 
the most thorough manner. Rafters set 18 inches on centres. 

Studding for tower 5 by 5 inches at the corners, 3 by 5 inches for the 
windows, and 2 by 5 inches for the rest. Cut in six 3 by 5-inch braces, and 
nail them well. 

Rafters for tower-roof 2 by 8 inches, set 18 inches on centres, with 
2 by 6-inch ceiling pieces. Cut in 2 by 5-inch nailing pieces horizontally 
between the studs, not more than 3 feet apart. 

Sills for porches 4 by 8 inches, and flooring joists 2 by 8 inches, set 18 
inches on centres. To be of sound pine or chestnut. Posts for the same 
6 by 6 inches, plates 6 by 6 inches, and rafters 3 by 6 inches, all of selected 
pine free from shakes, sap, pitch, and bad knots, planed and chamfered. 

Plates and rafters required for the dormer windows 2 by 6 inches. 

Execute all the framing required in the most substantial and skillful 
manner. 

Posts in the school-rooms to carry the girders of 6 by 6-inch selected 
chestnut, chamfered, and finished with moulded capitals and bases. 

Furnish timber lintels 6 by 8 inches, for all the window and door- 
openings. 



Roofs. 



Cover the roof throughout with sound seasoned roofing-plank, planed 
1^- inches thick, and matched. Bead the under side of the roofing to the 
porches. 



Slating. 



Finish the steep roofs, the roofs of the towers and of the dormers, with 
the best black or purple Pennsylvania or Vermont slate, laid with 3-inch 
lap, over stout roofing felt. 

Flash the hips, valleys, and all other parts requiring it, with stout zinc, 
and make all roofs weather-proof. 



Exterior Floors for porches of 3 by l? r inch pine, planed, matched, and put clown 

Finish. . with painted joints. 

Sheath down to the ground below the floors, with narrow pieces, and 
finish between the columns with railing, as by the plans. Sheath-up the 



SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 9 

vertical walls below the pointed roofs with pine 5 inches wide, planed and 
matched, and form the corners and belts of lj-inch pine. 

Plane and chamfer the exposed parts of the rafters to the dormer win- 
dows and pointed roofs, and finish them as required by the detail drawings. 
Put on 3-inch ridge rolls, and finials as by the drawings. 

Case up a gutter in the upper cornice. 

Windows. The frames for the short cellar windows to be of 2-inch plank rebated for 

the sash. For the long cellar windows, and for all the windows above the 
cellar, to be of the usual box form, with cherry or Southern pine pulley- 
stiles. 

Sills 2\ inches thick, rebated. 

The windows in the higher pointed roof to be fitted with shades, with 
ornamental outer edge. 

Sashes throughout to be If inches thick, one sash to each of the shorter 
cellar windows, and two sashes to the remaining windows, weather-lipped 
at the meeting rail. 

Glaze all the sashes throughout with best double-thick English or 
French sheet glass, with six panes to each sash. 

Hang the short cellar windows with 3-inch iron butts, and fasten them 
open and shut with strong iron buttons. 

Provide iron gratings, consisting of f-inch bars, set 3 inches apart in 1\ 
by 2-inch side pieces, for all the cellar window areas, also screens of ^--inch 
iron wire in strong wooden frames for the cellar windows. 

Hang all the sashes in the long cellar windows, and in the windows 
above the cellar, with best 2-inch axle-pulleys, cast-iron weights, and best 
Russian hemp sash-cord, and fit them with most approved spring-centre fasts. 



Floors. 



Lay the floors throughout, including those in the basement halls and 
class-room, with sound, perfectly-seasoned pine or spruce flooring, free from 
shakes, cracks, and bad knots, 3 by l\ inches, planed, matched, blind-nailed, 
and smoothed off after laying. 

Build the teachers' platforms of the same materials and of the sizes 
given on the plans. 

Finish them with rounded edge and coved moulding beneath. 



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SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 15. 

Thresholds of cherry or Southern pine. 

Lay a floor of 1-inch sound pine or spruce, planed and matched, on the 
ceiling joists in the top of the tower, and case up a scuttle, 3 by 4 feet, in 
the same. 

Provide neat and strong step-ladder to this floor. 



Partitions. Set the partitions throughout as required by the plans. Studs for par- 

titions enclosing the water-closets in the basement 2 by 4 inches. For all 
other jDartitions, 2 by 5 inches, aud in the partitions above the basement 
story, bridged. 

Mate the projecting angles solid, and double-stud the doors. Studding 
to be of sound spruce. 

Furring. Fur out the external walls of the halls and class-room in the basement, 

and all the external walls above the basement. Fur down all the ceilings. 
Use for all the furring, sound 1 by 3-inch strips, set 16 inches on centres. 

The ceilings of the cloak-rooms may be furred down to 10 feet clear 
height. 



Stairs. 



Build the stairs, from bottom to top, with 2| by 10-iuch string pieces, 
beaded at the lower edge, three of them to each flight, la-inch treads fin- 
ished with half-round edge and J-inch rises. 

Tongue the riser to the tread at both edges. The outer string-pieces 
to be of the full size given, the risers and treads being tongued into it. 

Set 7-inch turned posts at the angles, and case-up on the outer string 
3 feet high, with beaded sheathing 3 inches wide, finished with 2} 2 by 41- 
inch moulded rail. 

Frame the landings with 3 by 6-inch pieces, planed and beaded at 
the lower ed^es. 

The posts and rails to be of the best black walnut, and all the remain- 
ing work in the stairs of best chestnut. 

Plane and bead the stringers, and the under side of the risers, treads, 
and landings. 

Stairs to be 4 feet wide in the clear. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 



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Doors. 



Make the principal entrance doors 5 feet wide, by the height given on 
the plans, and 2^ inches thick. 

To be cut off at the height required to permit them to clear the stairs, 
the upper part being stationary, and glazed as required for the windows. 

The lower joart to be double, each half hung with three A\ by 44-inch 
iron butts, one half being fitted with shove-bolts at top and bottom, and 
the other half with most approved mortise latch and lever-lock. 

These doors to be finished with raised mouldinos. 

Entrance doors to basement to be 2 inches thick, hung with A\ by 4* 
inch iron butts, and fitted with mortise latches and large-sized rim-locks. 

The above doors to be made of best clear pine, thoroughly seasoned. 
The inside doors throughout to be of best chestnut, If inches 
thick, with raised panels (four to each), and bevelled stiles and rails. Above 
the basement story to be 3 feet 4 inches by S\ feet, and to have at the top 
an opening 2 feet high, fitted with blind in two panels, with swivel shades. 

The doors in the basement to be 3 by 7 feet. 

Hang all the inside doors with A\ by 42-inch iron butts, three to each, and 
fit them with most approved mortise locks and latches, with bronze metal 
handles and facings, using the same style of handles and facings, for the 
fastenings of the outside doors. 



INTERIOR FINISH. 

Doors and Finish all the doors and windows throughout with plain casings 7\ 

Windows. iuches wide, and band 3 inches wide, the latter with coved inner edge. 

Provide all thewindows in the school-rooms, class-rooms, and assembly 
room, with framed inside blinds \\ iuches thick. To have eight panels to 
the window, with swivel shades, and to be hung and fastened in the best 
manner. 



Cloak-Rooms. Sheath up the cloak-rooms to the height of (i feet from the floor, with 

matched and beaded sheathing, set vertically and finished with moulded cap. 
Put up in each cloak-room forty strong double iron clothes hooks, with 
white metal numbers to each. 



12 SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 

School-Rooms. Finish the walls of the school and class-rooms as high as the windows, 

with beaded sheathing 3 inches wide, set vertically, blind-nailed, and ter- 
minated with moulded cap, projecting 2^ inches, hollowed out at the top. 

Put up at the top of the black-boards (t> feet from the floor) a scotia 
and torus moulding. 

The black-boards to extend entirely around the walls of the class-rooms, 
and to occupy the two longer sides of the school-rooms. 

The class-room in the basement to be provided with apparatus shelves 
enclosed by sliding glass doors. The part indicated for that purpose on the 
plan, to have cupboards 2* feet high, next the -floor, the apparatus shelves 
to be above them, the glazed doors extending to the ceiling and terminating 
with moulded cornice. 

Finish the cupboards with paneled doors, shelves as directed, and 
twelve shallow dovetailed drawers. 

Case up the tank in this room as required for the walls, and make, in 
connection with it, a cupboard with shelves. 

Provide all the above-named doors, windows and drawers, with most 
approved bronzed iron fittings. 



Tanks. Build the tanks of sound seasoned pine plank, tongued and grooved, 

properly ironed together, and secured in place. 

Those in the second story (two in number) to be set in the top of the 
cloak-rooms next the outer wall. 

That in the basement class-room to be set as by the plan. Cover the 
cupboard at the end of this tank with l^-inch matched pine with raised 
edges. 

Finish the water-closets in the basement with black walnut riser, cover, 
and flap, the last-named with brass hinges. 

Sheath-up under the wash-bowls with materials similar to those required 
for the walls of the cloak-rooms, and set panel door to the cupboard thus 
formed. 

Do all cutting away of wood-work required by the plumbers during 
their work, and repair the same afterward. 

Case up neatly all water-pipes exposed to view. 



SPECIFICATION.— DESIGN No. 15. 



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Pmvras. Build privies as shown by the plans of Design No. 14. 

Walls to be of matched and battened sheathing, with tinned or slated 
roof. Tight board fence dividing the passage-way to them, with screena 
formed of lattice-work. 

Doors 1J inches thick, 2* by 7 feet, fitted with rim locks. 
Paint all the wood and tin-work about the privies with three good 
coats of lead and oil paint, and shower fine sand in the last two coats. 

Materials. For the sashes use the best clear, perfectly seasoned white pine. 

For all the exterior wood-finish use sound, thoroughly-seasoned white 
pine, free from sap, shakes, cracks, pitch, holes, and bad knots. 

For all interior finish, unless otherwise specified herein, use sound sea- 
soned chestnut, free from holes, cracks, and bad knots. 

Painting. Paint all the exterior wood-work three times with the best Union white 

lead and pure boiled linseed oil. 

Grain both sides of the entrance doors to imitate black walnut, and 
finish them with one coat of the best varnish. 

Give the finishing coat on the porches, dormers and roof-finish, two 
tints, as directed. 

Tint the window frames below the roof to imitate freestone, and shower 
fine sand in the last two coats. 

Pub down smooth and finish with oil, all the interior hard wood-work, 
and grain the window-sashes upon the inside in imitation of white oak. 

Furniture. Set, in each school-room, 80 single desks and chairs, to be furnished by 

the committee in charge of the building. 

Finish and complete all labor necessary to carry out the evident mean- 
ing of the plans referred to and this specification, and provide all materials 
required, unless otherwise stated herein. The materials to be the best of 
the several kinds specified, and the labor to be clone in the most skillful 
manner. 

Leave all the work sound, clean and perfect at the completion. 



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DESIGN NO. 16.. 

Plates 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60. 

Tins design shows a frame building adapted to the uses o* a town school. 

Each room in the principal story and the second story, is large enough to accommodate 
56 pupils, a number which is generally considered the greatest that should be assigned to 
one teacher. 

The partitions are arranged so as to permit the three rooms to be thrown into one, when 
required. The third story may be treated in the same way, if desired, but is represented in 
the plan as being left entire. 

Water-closets for the teachers' use are set in the basement, those for the pupils being 
outside the building, with passages to them from the basement, as shown in previous designs. 

The arrangement of the ventilating apparatus is more complete than any before given 
in this work. The principles here employed were used by Mr. L. W. Leeds, of New York, 
for a school-house in Massachusetts, which came under the notice of the author of this book, 
and since the method will probably be best understood if the description is directed toward 
one portion of the system, the work in and immediately below the second floor will be 
selected for that description. 

Under the cloak-rooms and the passages in the second story, a box is formed by furring 
down the first story ceiling to the height of 12 feet, and this box is divided by a vertical 
partition in the centre. The half of this box next the first story school-rooms serves as the 
ventilating duct for the upper part of these rooms, two registers being set in the wall for 
the purpose of opening and closing the connection. The half of the box next the hall 
serves as the ventilating duct for the lower part of the second story school-rooms, the con- 
nection being made through registers set in the floor opening into wooden tubes carried 
between the flooring-beams to the duct named (shown by dotted lines in the first story 
plan). The same system is carried out in the other stories, and all the ducts terminate in 
jthe vertical shaft in the centre, which is also divided into two parts, oue for the top, and 
the other for the bottom ventilation. 



2 SPECIFICATION. — DESIGN No. 16. 

This shaft is carried up above the roof, as shown by the drawings, and is covered by a 
roof of its own, with large openings beneath. 

It encloses the chimney, the heat from which would furuish sufficient propelling power 
to the air in the d acts to secure good ventilation, when the heating apparatus were in use. 
At other times it would be necessary to derive the poAver from gas-jets burning in the 
shaft, or from a small stove set in a continuation of it. 

The partitions at either side of the chimney, dividing the vertical shaft, should be built 
of brick, to avoid danger from fire. 

The ceilings of the halls are furred down to the same height as those in the cloak-rooms 
and passages. 



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DESIGN no. 17. 

Plates 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66. 

This design exhibits a town School-house, to accommodate a school of eight classes of 
56 pupils each. 

The accommodations might be increased to twelve classes, by dividing the third story 
as the other stories are divided. In that case the partitions should be arranged as shown 
in Design 16, so as to adapt the third story rooms for the use of larger classes. 

This design is intended to be executed in brick, with cut-stone finish for the windows 
and for the belt-courses. 

The small rooms at either side of the stairs are cut in two by floors level with the land- 
ings in the stairs, the upper portions serving as closets for the teachers' use. 
The lavatories in the basement are also designed for the use of the teachers. 

The detailed drawing in Plate No. 65 shows the expedient adopted to secure the ven- 
tilation of the lower part of the school-rooms, the flues shown in the drawing connecting 
with one side of the chimney, while the ventilating registers set at the top of the rooms 
connect with the other side, the partition separating the two parts of the chimney contain- 
ing the smoke-flue. The heating is designed to be effected by using steam apparatus, the 
vertical pipes being set in the chimneys. 



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